The Chinese Communist Party has no idea about the Real World
One of the dangers of any system like this is that you form a bubble around the leadership which becomes insulated from reality.
The “underlings” always want to impress the great leader, and success by programs advocated by the party or some prominent leader sells better than saying it failed or brought mixed results. You even have it here in the US within government bureaucracies. The mid level managers know to echo whatever the flavor of the day is and they know what they shouldn’t criticize... Do you think Wolfowitz wanted to hear how the Iraqi’s weren’t celebrating us as liberators in 2003? Do you think the Obama Holder administration wanted to hear about voter intimidation by the new Black Panthers? But in a system like in China where you don’t even have a semblance of a right to free speech, privacy, etc. and a single all powerful party, this distortion tends to take on (cliché follows) “epic” proportions as with Nero in Rome, Saddam in Iraq, Idi Amin in Uganda...
They think they can pull the same stuff on others, they pull
on their own people.
Just wars end up with just dead people.
The Chinese are not immortal.
There would be costs to others too.
Taiwan is not China’s property.
To bad, so sad, your dad.
Chinese leadership is so immature. It has over a billion
citizens and a very large land mass. It has large deposits
of natural resources. It could be content. It has chosen
to demand property not it’s own outside it’s borders.
Sooner or later, it’s going to get schooled, when other
nations have had enough.
“The Chinese Communist Party has no idea about the Real World”
Just to be clear, people who have no idea about the Real World who also have nuclear weapons and who are TERRIFIED of losing power. I watched three of the companies I work for be destroyed by people who had no idea how the Real World worked. Being the people in charge, they did just fine while the rest of us lost our jobs. That seems to be how the Real World works. The people who screw it up are generally not affected by the chaos they cause. Further, people in charge who are living in their own special reality are surrounded by people who support their view of reality until the real world just floods in and destroys everything.
If we are going to do something to change Taiwan’s status quo we need to do it so quickly and so decisively that people who do understand the Real World and who will be affected by it lop off the heads of those who do not understand and who see themselves as being just fine regardless of what happens to the great, unwashed masses.
Frankly, the thing to do is create so much discord inside China that by the time they notice a US presence on their doorstep they will be unable to do a thing about it. Figuring out how to set a million Uygur’s loose from their prison camps and giving them arms would go a long way to creating this situation.